skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The mention fraud several times -but say it’s NOT because of fraud— but I almost receive a wink when they mention it like that.

Their full statement as quoted in the linked article denies that the ban is for "financial fraud" but includes "spreading misinformation" as one of the reasons for the ban. I don't see any contradiction or winking involved. People who repeatedly spread hate speech and discriminatory content and glorify violence after repeated warnings not to do so are pretty likely to be spreading a wide variety of misinformation other than financial fraud.

As for whether such things can be the reason to ban the server, I'm sure Discord's terms of service allow them to ban for this reason. Historically a lot of tech companies were hands-off in practice, but ever since the January 6 violence in the US and the related online activities, many of these companies would right now prefer to err in the opposite direction.
I found that Banks wrote about every kind of sadism/violence in a big mix, plus when he really wanted to showcase someone truly nasty, he just used the good old suspense and banality-of-evil method.

Sure, the long listing of various bad and worse and even worse acts are complete clichés, but at least in Surface Detail it was an interesting plot device and setting. (The ending of Player of Games was a bit too much, but looking back, it's okay, it's not really a big part (if I remember that part is ~10 pages, from the moment the drone forces Morat's hand to the king's demise). Oh, and the comically villainous dude in The Algebraist seems like a gag. (With the sentient punchbag.)
Joint statement to warn EU lawmakers over ‘anti-encryption’ push
That's what Matrix is for. They should have the money to pay for one at least.
Yeah, for one thing, the scale of Dropbox may make this a uniquely worthwhile investment for them. Many apps have similar kinds of speculative caching features that could be optimized with predictive modeling, but the same cost-benefit analysis might show that it saves $1.7k/year instead of $1.7M, less than the cost of the feature's development and maintenance.
> tying methods with the individual/first argument makes it very difficult to model interactions of multiple objects.

The best example of this in Python is operator overloading. We need to define both `__add__` and `__radd__` methods to overload a single operator. Even then, there are situations where Python will call one of those where the other would be better.
> If a stock isn't issuing dividends, it's either profiting and storing large amounts of cash or losing money.

Or it's funnelling the money back into itself to grow. Amazon made "zero profits" for many years because it wanted to growth as fast as it could.

If a company finds that it cannot find any productive ways of using cash then it may return the money to investors in dividends or share buybacks. Management may determine that the ROI for owners is better by keeping the money internal.

If owners disagree they can presumably get new management at the shareholders' meeting by replacing the board, or ordering a change in cash-use policy:

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/votingright.asp
Isn’t this just Zero Hedge at scale? ZH at least tries to formally ape analyst reports.
You could say the same thing about Longs. They're based on asymmetry of information where the person buying has more insight than the person selling. If the stock goes up then the seller will have effectively lost money (via opportunity cost).
Margin accounts.

You buy the stock for $200 but of the $200, $100 is money that you've borrowed. Because the stock is now at $350 your assets cover the margin easily. but if the suddenly becomes liquid and gaps down to $2, you owe $100 and only have $2 dollars in assets with which to cover your margin loan. You get a margin call and the bank force sells your stock then takes your car, your house, etc to cover the $98 you still owe.
There is no evidence that is true, and short interest is still above 130% so it sounds like a lie to discourage additional buying of gme
As an owner of a car I paid a lot of money I don’t want other brands occupy my charger spot, sharing with other brands is a very bad idea. LA owners will confirm :)
Just buy an lower priced call as a hedge to define your risk. If you get assigned you could land a pile of GME that goes to zero.
I disagree. Good OO is about encapsulation of concerns. Make a Client object and push data to it; let the class worry about the networking and sockets. Make another object to deal with the database.

For sufficiently complex systems I don't see how functional or other paradigms can manage without holding a huge amount of global state.
GPL is a big hammer you can use to force back contribution into the project and ensure that folks that use the software actually contribution to it continuing to be available and relevant - if Postgres has been able to sustain themselves for all these years with a more permissive license then why would they risk going GPL and scaring off a lot of their customers just to ensure that each customer that remains can be forced to back-contribute any innovations they make.

(please note that GPL doesn't in actuality force anyone to back-contribute but in effect it tends to work that way - it actually puts a lot of responsibility on the original authors to re-acquire improved versions of the library but it does ensure that those improved versions are accessible in some manner)
Retail traders make up nearly 25% of the stock market
Li-Cycle Wins 2021 Big Innovation Award
If you borrowed money to buy it (margin)
And they chose today as the best possible time to enact this ban? Really?

I really think they should have put more thought into the timing of this decision; a lot of users are going to be upset and will suddenly start to realize that a single company has a monopoly on their online social life (this may seem like an exaggeration, but it feels quite true to me colloquially, especially if you're a younger US male and/or play video games).

Regardless of how right or wrong this moderation choice may be, I hope that this accelerates the push for decentralization and encryption; the few companies that virtually all online humans use to communicate have far too much power over us, and we should be more willing to recognize that extreme centralization of power is dangerous.

(One final note: (EDIT: subreddit is now public again) now that this caused the subreddit to be set to private which seems to have instantly caused $GME to start tanking in AH, they are going to be in for users that are much more upset than they are used to if the narrative decides that this ban caused the crash, if it does in fact last until tomorrow)
Private. Not offline.
That ensures that ISPs and backbones cannot be the ones applying content guidelines.
Private or deleted?
For all the uneasy feelings I get about the triggerhappy banning by these platforms, there's probably a light at end of the tunnel. Boot enough people and the better alternatives might actually flourish with network effects.
> It's somewhat just the return of global variables.

No, it's not. This is far from the only objection/disagreement I have with the article, but I can take almost everything else as either opinions or convenient examples in support of those opinions.

That sentence, though, just stuck with me as particularly odd because, among other things, using classes doesn't make you more likely to use global variables than using functions exclusively. And I'm not even talking about Python in specific.

Anyhow, it had been a while, I think, since a post pitting FP against OOP had reached the front page, and thus causing yet another iteration of that traditional flamewar in the comments. Guess it was due.
No, I actually don't think websites have much of a problem with this. I generally keep my browser around 1,000 pixels wide (more or less depending on what I"m doing), and websites generally work fine. Responsive design helps a lot, as you say.

What surprises me is how many users seem to keep their browsers maximized at all times, particularly on desktop-sized displays! I'm pretty sure I see people doing it more on Windows than on Mac for some reason, which makes me wonder if it's a UI design problem (of the OS, not websites).
I like his point about the shorting hedge fund in "The Big Short" were the heroes but now they're the baddies.
Using ; will not work if you ran set -e before (eg.: if you're using it in a script). Perhaps more importantly, cmd1; cmd2 & will not work either, you'll need a subshell. So, you need at least: ( set +e; cmd1 ; cmd2 ) &. And there are probably other caveats. And we haven't even got to the output redirection yet.
Apple Posts Record Quarterly Profit
Grab a drink from the fridge.

If it's a vending machine or the interviewer tells you it's an honor system, you are at the wrong place.

EDIT : Why the downvotes?
> I've heard that these kind of experiments are impossible to do today, due to "ethics" rules in science.

If you're referring to the fact that the experimenters had to lie to the subjects and deceive them, not just in one individual statement but over the whole experimental scenario, the reason why that's not a good idea is actual practical, not ethical: constructing a false scenario and properly controlling what the subjects believe in a false scenario is very hard.

For example, consider this post by The Last Psychiatrist:

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/05/first_person_account...

The key point is here:

"He didn't stop because of moral courage; he stopped because he thought he was being played."

In other words, he figured out that it was a false scenario and his refusal was based on that, not on any moral objection to shocking people. But he got counted as a "refusal". How many other people who didn't refuse had some intuitive sense that the whole thing was a setup, thereby dampening whatever moral impulses they had? There's no way of knowing. The fact that it was a setup changes the whole experiment, as compared to one where all of the information being given to the subjects is truthful.
Umm...just download it? https://winworldpc.com/product/wordstar/ Sure you need to transfer the files over, but that's quick work with a cheap serial to USB adapter or a USB floppy drive if the target machine has 3.5" drive
Naked call option?
> Our low cost albendazole product allows physicians to affordably treat hookworm outbreaks throughout America that were previously too expensive to treat systemically before.

Relevant article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-low...
/r/wallstreetbets is private now.
> Volkswagen is starting to sell lots of long distance capable EV like id.3 and id.4 (at least in Europe) with absolutely zero visible/working plan to provide their customer reliable fast charging everywhere they need (directly or via a partner network)

The plans are:

- Ionity in Europe: https://ionity.eu/

- Electrify America in the US: https://www.electrifyamerica.com/locate-charger/

- Electrify Canada in Canada: https://www.electrify-canada.ca/locate-charger/

And since these are CCS cars you can also use any other CCS charging network like Fastned, Gridserve, BP Pulse, Petro-Canada, Chargefox, EVgo, ChargePoint, Circle K, McDonald's, etc, etc.
>It encourages you to mutate.

I literally shouted "yes!" why throwing my fist in the air in solidarity. I will never understand how OOP became something such that warps everyone's minds. OOP is good for making clean and encapsulated types, beyond that the problems the author points out creep in encouraging bad behavior and obfuscating.
Yes, Tesla could allow other cars to charge but require them to have a Tesla-to-standard adapter and an account. But there is another side effect: At a Supercharger, you meet other Tesla owners, i.e. quite wealthy people, and you are surrounded by the brand. Diluting that would be like seeing a McDonalds with people who eat KFC. Tesla may want to own the visual space.
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No, the short float is still hight. Old short have covered but new ones have replaced them
I have no doubt the timing was extremely intentional.
Bitcoin is a bit different though. Gamestop shares can't be traded freely / directly p2p. You can't self custody your Gamestop shares. Gamestop can issue new shares, majorly diluting the supply, etc.
private. I believe that someone else can take the name if it's deleted.
It's going to be a long four years: https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1354495049397055494
You can expect whatever you want. What actually happens is something else.

On any given trade you can end up with something worth more or less than what you started with. Even if you sell and cash out, you may end up "losing" because things went on to perform better than you expected and the person/entity on the other end of the trade knew something you didn't.

The market owes you nothing.
We can inherit from `list`, `dict` etc., but objects of those classes are still not as flexible as "normal" objects. For example, we can't add an attribute to a list using `l = []; l.a = 1`.
Suggesting and weighing/voting on investment strategies in the open seems like the opposite of fraud.
Charging stations coordinate with the vehicle to determine the charge rate, so there's no restriction based on power. Other EVs technically could use the Supercharger network, though many of them wouldn't be able to charge at the SC's maximum rate. Tesla has decided to keep it exclusive for now.

There are actually other charging networks that have more powerful chargers than Tesla; for example, while the V3 SCs max out at 250 kW, Electrify America's most powerful chargers max out at 350 kW.
In the previous one they used to teach that the singular form is "millenium".
For large public* groups. The large private groups are basically 1990s Yahoo! chat rooms, complete with racism, bullying, criminal activity and child grooming. They only get caught when they get infiltrated, or when members self-report.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-where-teens-rule-and-pa...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/29/disco...
>trying to catch up on range

There are a couple cars in the price range of the Model 3 that have better range, combined with the fact Tesla is known to exaggerate the range of their vehicles.
Is Windows in bad shape now? My understanding is desktop OS market share hasn’t moved much since 2005?

(Maybe you mean Microsoft missing the boat on mobile? But that would be an odd comparison to make with Apple, who don’t seem to have a problem missing new product categories.)
OTOH, as the snow melts, it'll flow and block oxygen from reaching the peat.
I much agree that the best should build the infrastructure and they should be allowed to profit from their investment.

The problematic part is if they choose to shut out other players without any better reason than wanting to dominate the market.

Free markets aren't infallible and they can quickly become unfree when moats have been established. (Amazon feels like the obvious example of that. Competing with them is close to impossible.)
Same difference. Obviously a subreddit can't go offline without reddit going offline.
It is not a given. But there is a correlation. And the correlation is enough for insurance companies to statistically benefit from their attempts to encourage people to do it.
The original ones had some problems that were never fixed (IIRC, the original firmware was outsourced to a company that went under), but the Advantage 2 was a redesign and works great (at least for me).
The description of wallstreetbets is literally "as if 4chan found a bloomberg terminal", so I don't know what else anyone expected other than 4chan-like-behavior.
Musk and Bezos are fundamentally focused on drastically lowering the price per kg to orbit.

It's possible that Starship could bring the cost to LEO down to the tens of dollars per kg.

> colossal space telescopes

...and that's how you do that. (:
Even futures markets aren't protected from this manipulation. The Onion Futures Act has an interesting story.
GME can make money from the short squeeze so why should it help those who short it and just accelerate its demise?
Haven't listened to the audio, but why is this dude chamath still 'popular'? He seems like a modern day hedge fund trader who successfully navigates twitter but hasn't produced much of any value?

Seems like he is riding the FB hate train like any good marketing/snakeoil sales professional would.

Really wish the new tech platforms provide a better soapbox and speakerphone than hacks such as this person. He is simply not worth listening to.
Having followed this entire thread I did not assume this context either from what vel0city stated.
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In cyber espionage, U.S. is both hunted and hunter
Any good resource to learn about her issues?
And leave no way for common people to organize against the status quo. The establishment sure would love that.

Why are you on HN then in the first place?
> or move to a country with cheaper drugs

I think it's ridiculous that someone has to consider moving countries, which is no small task and out of reach for many, just to be able to afford their healthcare.
It's ludicrous to suggest that the wealthiest author of the 21st century, who can get articles published in any news outlet of her choice whenever she likes, who could get interviews broadcast on any UK tv channel, is somehow "being silenced".

But let's look at the trans people she hates: where do we hear their voices? We don't.

For a comprehensive debunking of Rowlings bullshit you could try this: https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/why-what-jk-rowling-said-...
The why does come into play, often quite unexpectedly if you don't really understand how your memory system works. I've seen StackOverflow questions about performance anomalies that could only be properly answered by digging into the details of not just cache line size, but also cache associativity.

Not understanding how the system works means that sometimes you'll have to settle for not being able to use the full performance of your hardware, and that your performance constraints will in practice be rather inscrutable and often unpredictable.
> Are there psychotic devs out there who call it something other than `self`? Yuck!

Sometimes I like to overload operators using `def __add__(lhs, rhs)` and `def __radd__(rhs, lhs)`.
This is myopic. Cross-charging means more chargers you can use and better accessibility for you as well in the long run.
> If your business model cannot survive when a critical upstream piece of your infrastructure moves to GPL, you probably have a bad business model to begin with.

I think they appear to be surviving just fine - they are switching forks not shuttering their doors or even withdrawing ES compatibility.

Suddenly changing licenses to increase how restrictive it is absolutely is a nightmare scenario to a lot of businesses and it quite rationally is so. We share software and build on each other's shoulders, to reject that and build everything from scratch is silly and fiscally irresponsible.

I'm very confused why this is so strongly stated when it's likely that most of us have, at one point, sat down with two pieces of libraries and gone with the less useful one due to licensing issues.
Was the server partnered? Partner servers are subject to stricter scrutiny (ie the don't-make-us-look-bad-in-public rule).
Hmm, i wonder how accurate this article is, particularly around melvin capital's positions.

If they only had put options, why did they need a $2.5B bailout this week? I was under the impression they also had short positions or sold naked calls in order to get into as much trouble as they seem to be in based on the bailout announcement.

Or were their put options' value being used as basis other leveraged investments?

Don't understand how they could have lost $2.5B on just put options.
Yeah, it's definitely among my favorite essays. Btw, your explanation was excellent as well!
From a security point of view, that seems insane.
The subreddit is also ~banned~ private.

A good time to shill Aether :https://getaether.net/

Like reddit, but decentralized and distributed.

They even have a wsb sub.
I dug down into your comment history where you said you were using a custom Canvas2D engine. Hopefully you'll open source it like you said, this is right up my alley.
Yeah, well, that's great. But I read many articles about police departments in other states putting homeless people on a bus for the Bay Area. That's is not cool of them. It overwhelmed the social services in the Bay Area.
The teeth reviews on that product are pretty crazy. I kept reading them thinking "they really thought they could do this themselves??"
Right now just private
How is it easily bypassed?
Dude’s has hits (like WeWork) and misses (like Tesla).
Hm, interestingly Surface Detail was published in 2010, well after Altered Carbon (which came out in 2002). Or maybe you have earlier Banks books in mind?

Also, it's not like sci-fi was somehow sterile and devoid of violence/sex/abuse (psychological and otherwise). After all a lot of sci-fi is still basically pulp. Though it's understandable that it's not everyone's cup of entertainment.
I don't think you're quite right. These people don't actually think this way (or think of themselves this way). They maybe think that they could have ended up that way, but that's much different.

What ties all these communities together is idolizing that archetype, without necessarily yearning to be that archetype.
> when they download our default distribution from elastic.co

1. elastic.co

2. Products

3. Elasticsearch

4. Ignore three buttons, click the link "Or download and get started"

5. Ignore six buttons, click the link "Visit our downloads page"

6. Ignore twenty other links, find "The pure Apache 2.0 licensed distribution is available here." six paragraphs into the 'Notes' section.

7. Download it.

There's your any and all feedback, I'm looking forward to being let know _how_ welcome it was.
The subreddit is as of now private, too.

Edit: for the curious, according to my open tabs minutes before going private the sub had '3,218,594 readers. 778,127 users here now'

Edit2: The sub is back online and up to '3,577,830 readers' and counting.
Indeed. Typical "correlation is not causation" phenomenon.
Compression is caused by distance; not by your lens. But telephoto lenses are usually used when you're far away from your subject.

Another example is "we use AC power on the grid because it's more efficient than DC for transmission." Nope. High voltage is more efficient for transmission; we use AC only because Thomas Edison didn't have silicon carbide power transistors.
And who exactly is hurt here?

I've never heard of this subreddit before, nor it's Discord Server, but I do know that one doesn't just stumble upon either on accident. The only people being hurt here are the ones that went looking to be hurt.

What we have here is a group of immature people, emboldened by internet anonymity, saying stupid things for the "lolz".

Does anyone think they'll be more mature because their server was banned? Of course not... they'll just make a new one, further emboldened by the obvious censorship. Let idiots be idiots, folks... we all know one when we see one.
Buying the short squeezed stock is what you should do if you believe in efficient market hypothesis.
Perhaps. I happen to be in a space with lots of "old enough to vote" code still running.

On the other hand, the Compose "button" in gmail is ... a <div>:

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